CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 16 July 2010

16 July 2010

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Acquisitions

• LMS International Acquires Emmeskay (USA/India)
• LMS Sells Noesis and the OPTIMUS Platform to Japanese Cybernet Systems

CIMdata News

• Siemens PLM Software’s Solid Edge Insight; A CIMdata Program Review
• CIMdata in the News: “PLM: What You Need to Know”

Company News

• ASM International Content Available on Knovel ASM International Content Available on Knovel
• Berkeley Design Automation Lands Stephen Meier as VP of Engineering
• CGTech Opens New Office in Brazil
• Delcam Strengthens Healthcare Team in North America
• Delcam to Participate in €5.2m “Factories Of The Future” Project
• Lectra Appoints Laurence Jacquot Group Industrial Operations and Hardware R&D Director
• Mentor Graphics Announces 22nd Annual PCB Technology Leadership Awards Program
• New Mexico State University Receives In-Kind Software Grant from Siemens PLM Software Valued at $27.5 Million
• TEC and Surfware Grant Arkansas State University SURFCAM CAD/CAM Software Valued at $756,000

Events News

• Concepts NREC Displays Propulsion Turbomachinery Technology at the 46th AIAA Joint Propulsion Conference & Exhibit
• DCS Vice President to Present on the Correlation of As-Build Products to As-Designed Models at CMS
• Delcam to Host More Free Workshops on Latest Developments in CAM
• Delcam to Show High-Precision Manufacturing at Micronora
• PTC Experts and Partners Exhibit at PlanetPTC Virtual – CoCreate
• Registration Opens for the COE 2010 Industry Workshop - Aerospace & Defense
• Solid Edge Productivity Summit Tour to Storm through 17 Cities in 5 Weeks

Financial News

• ANSYS to Release Second Quarter 2010 Earnings on August 5, 2010
• Cadence Announces Second Quarter 2010 Financial Results Webcast
• Infosys Technologies Announces Results for the Quarter Ended June 30, 2010
• Open Text to Report Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year-End 2010 Financial Results on Wednesday, August 18, 2010
• PTC to Announce Fiscal Q3 Results on Tuesday, July 27th and Host Conference Call on Wednesday, July 28th at 8:30 am ET

Implementation Investments

• Bravo Sports Implements Centric PLM to Strengthen Global Product Development
• Cadence QRC Extraction Adopted by STMicroelectronics for 40nm Analog/Mixed-Signal Design
• Contour Premium Aircraft Seating Reaps the Benefits of HyperWorks Enterprise Simulation Suite to Reduce Development Costs and Drive Innovation
• CYFAC® Acquires CATIA PLM Express to Reinforce High-end Status
• Delcam’s DentMILL Supports Rapid Growth at Dental Milling Centre
• Delcam’s PowerMILL Helps When Going It Alone
• EADS Innovation Works Selects MSC.Software CAE Solutions for the Deployment of the PLM Harmonization Project called PHENIX
• Environmental Business Cluster and Autodesk Partner to Support Clean Technology
• Epson Expands Use of PTC CoCreate To Large Format Printers
• Leading Diabetes Management Company, Insulet Corporation, Goes Live with Pilgrim Software’s On-Demand CAPA Management
• Maharishi’s Production Arm, Maestro Engineering (P) Ltd. Rolls out WFX
• Mentor Graphics Signs Exclusive Global Agreement with Automotive Supplier Magneti Marelli
• SVTC Technologies Selects Synopsys' Manufacturing Tools to Accelerate Time to Commercialization
• Transcal Suntech Internasional Chooses OptiTex as Provider of its CAD Solutions
• TriVector Services Validates Time Latencies for Ares I Rocket with MathWorks Products
• Wilson Sporting Goods Co. Teams with CD-adapco for Advanced Aerodynamics Simulation of Championship Soccer Balls

Industry-Wide News

• EDA Consortium Reports Revenue Increase for Q1 2010

Product News

• AspenTech Announces Availability of 7.2 Release of aspenONE V7
• Autodesk Brings Proven Plant Design Products Together with Release of Autodesk Plant Design Suite 2011
• Avatech Solutions Releases "Avatech Utilities for Revit 2011" With Three New Productivity Tools
• CAT5Works Now Supports CATIA V5 R20 Bi-directional SolidWorks/CATIA Translator
• D-Cubed 2D DCM and PGM from Siemens PLM Software Licensed by Planit and Integrated into Cabinet Vision
• Dassault Systemes and EskoArtwork Partner to Streamline Packaging and Label Management
• Delcam Launches New Inspection Software
• Dynamic 2D/3D CAD that Feels Good in its Skin: MEDUSA4 v. 5.0
• ESI Releases Virtual Performance Solution 2010
• Infor Launches Infor24 Cloud Initiative and Selects Microsoft Windows Azure as Preferred Cloud Platform
• IntegrityWare Releases New SubD-NURBS Product
• Lattice Technology Releases Updated XVL Converter Products
• LEDAS Enhances 3D Geometry Editing for RhinoDirect Beta 0.3
• Metrology Software: Carl Zeiss Integrates Kineo CAM’s Technology
• Pilgrim Software Announces the Global Release of SmartSolve® Version 8.2.30 -- The Next Installment of the Complete Risk, Compliance & Quality Management Solution
• Pilgrim Software Launches Integrated Platform for Regulatory Reporting
• PROSTEP Unveils OpenPDM® 7.0
• True Engineering Technology Announces Release of TruenumbersTM

CIMdata Online Polls

CIMdata is now featuring online polls with real time reporting on our web site at http://www.cimdata.com/polls/polls.html. Each week the results of the previous poll will be included in the CIMdata PLM Industry Summary to help you stay on top of trends in the PLM industry.

Take a moment to visit the site and vote on our current poll.

The results for the last opinion poll are:

In CIMdata’s latest opinion poll, participants were asked to indicate to what extent their company was using social computing and other Web 2.0 technologies in its product development processes. Two-thirds (66%) of the poll participants indicated very limited to no current use of these technologies. An extremely low percent (9%) indicated that they use these solutions a great deal and 25% indicated some use. In general, these are disappointing numbers for those have predicted an explosion of the use of these technologies within a corporate environment. As we know, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites have grown rapidly. The use of them is widespread throughout much of today’s social media-savvy younger generation, but they are not yet readily accessible within today’s corporate product development environments.

CIMdata believes that there are two primarily factors that are limiting the overall deployment and use of social computing technologies in today’s corporate product development environments. The first factor is that the social computing technologies that are offered by today’s PLM solution suppliers are relatively new and offer limited functionality. The second factor is that many companies are still looking at social computing as something that cannot be controlled or managed in a way that increases productivity of their product development process participants while protecting a company’s intellectual property. They are concerned that individuals will use social computing for non-business activities—reducing the time they focus on their assigned tasks—rather than as an enabler for collaboration among the various individuals and groups working within the context of product development. Additionally, they have concerns that the commercial social computing solutions have not been designed with privacy and data security as fundamental capabilities. Use of these tools without such capabilities exposes product designs and competitive information to risk.

Studies have shown that humans are hard-wired to cooperate and share opinions. This means social media can and should be used to support product development. In fact, internal and external communities that can collaborate in a flexible yet controlled manner can better drive an organization’s ability to define and deliver innovative products to the market. There is no doubt that getting the most out of this new way of working and the social computing technologies offered is yet to be fully understood within the typical product development environment. CIMdata’s experience is that, if properly implemented, using social computing/networking techniques provides benefits, but those benefits may prove to be elusive to many. CIMdata believes that the PLM industry has an opportunity to lead the way in using social computing within the business environment—internally by utilizing and externally by delivering best practices and enabling technologies. The ultimate objective should be to leverage social computing technologies to provide enhanced collaborative environments for PLM users that further expand the use of PLM within and across extended enterprises.

NOTE: The results of these polls are anecdotal, not scientific.
If you have a suggestion for a poll you'd like to see contact us at info@cimdata.com.

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